The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

The moon, by her comparative proximity, and the constantly varying appearances produced by her several phases, has always occupied a considerable share of the attention of the inhabitants of the earth.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.